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| Author(s): |
Paulo Roberto Jannig
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Educação Física e Esportes (EEFE/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2017-09-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Patricia Chakur Brum;
Marcelo Alves da Silva Mori;
Edilamar Menezes de Oliveira;
Leonardo dos Reis Silveira;
Carlos Ugrinowitsch
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| Advisor: | Patricia Chakur Brum; Jorge Manuel Lira Gonçalves Ruas |
| Abstract | |
Increased oxidative capacity induced by regular aerobic exercise (AE) is considered a major factor in health. Skeletal muscle is one of the most compromised tissues during exercise and has remarkable metabolic and structural plasticity upon mechanical stimuli. Muscles are rich in mitochondria and heavily reliant on oxidative phosphorylation for energy production. Thus, increased aerobic capacity induced by regular AE occurs largely due to mitochondrial adaptations. Many studies have shown that AE is able to induce mitochondrial biogenesis, and the transcription coactivator PGC-1?1 is known to coordinated gene expression both in nuclei and mitochondria. However, muscle-specific PGC-1?1 knockout mice still display major mitochondrial remodeling after AE training, supporting the existence of unknown mechanisms of AE-induced mitochondrial adaptations. Although making new mitochondria is crucial, the maintenance of a healthy pool of this organelle through mechanisms of quality control seems to be of equal or greater importance during mitochondrial adaptation. One mechanism for mitochondrial quality control comprises the removal of damaged/aged mitochondria via autophagy (mitophagy). Nonetheless, the mechanisms of AE-induced mitophagy are poorly understood. Given the importance of mitochondrial adaptation to the health benefits of AE, we conducted an exploratory study to uncover new mechanisms underlying this process. For this, we performed a proteomic analysis in the skeletal muscle mitochondria-enriched fractions of mice submitted to a single bout of AE. In a first study, we have used these proteomics data to seek for proteins that might be involved in AE-induced mitophagy. On this matter, we confirmed that a single bout of AE in mice increases skeletal muscle mitophagy signaling. Additionally, we suggest that Phb2 and Mief2 accumulate in damaged mitochondria in skeletal muscle during AE and might assist in the recruitment of the autophagic machinery to the organelle, thus aiding to mitochondrial quality control and AE-induced mitochondrial adaptation. In a second study, we have used the same proteomics data to identify transcriptional regulators that might have a role in AE-induced mitochondrial adaptation. Thereby, we have found that the mitochondrial protein Spryd4, whose function was so far unknown, seems to increase in the skeletal muscle mitochondria-enriched fractions following AE. Here we show that skeletal muscle Spryd4 gene expression decreases in aged and dystrophic mice, increases in healthy trained animals and also seems to increase in trained humans. In vitro, we have seen that Spryd4 loss of function in primary myotubes promotes mitochondrial dysfunction, decreases expression of genes involved in mitochondrial complex function, as in fatty acid oxidation and transport. Indeed, Spryd4 loss of function promoted myotube atrophy. Taken together, by analyzing the skeletal muscle mitochondrial proteome after a single bout of AE in mice, we have identified proteins that might participate in AE-induced mitophagy and substrate metabolism, and thus in skeletal muscle adaptation to AE (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/21065-3 - Aerobic exercise-induced mitochondrial adaptation: role of muscle mitophagy |
| Grantee: | Paulo Roberto Jannig |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |